The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.